The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was created primarily to combat terrorism, separatism and extremism. Cui Lingnan tells us how member states have fulfilled the role during the last decade.

SCO's six full members account for 60% of the land mass of Eurasia. Their population is a quarter of the world's, and with observer states included, one half.

The Organization has two permanent institutions, its Secretariat in Beijing, and its anti-terrorism headquarters in the Uzbek capital Tashkent.

The SCO was founded in 2001 to combat terrorism, separatism and extremism. A year later, the mission was put into its charter in St. Petersburg, Russia.

In 2004, members signed agreements on cooperation fighting drug trafficking and the protection of secret information within the organization's framework.

In 2002, China and Kyrgyzstan held a joint military drill. It marks the first time the Chinese Liberation Army held exercises abroad.

A year later, the SCO held its first joint counter-terrorism drill involving all member states, with the first phase taking place in Kazakhstan and second in China.

Since then, they've held a series of large scale anti-terrorism drills dubbed "Peace Mission". The biggest was "Peace Mission 2010" in Kazakhstan, deploying more than five thousand personnel.

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